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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought I had read that she broke up someone’s marriage? A vegetarian writer named Jonathan Szafran. And she was so taken with him that she had to start writing to him. Gag.[/quote]

Not quite -- the actual story is hilarious. Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer became friends a long time ago because she was a fan of his novels, and then she became a vegan because of his non-fiction book on vegetarianism. They wrote these long and hilariously pretentious and self-congratulatory emails to each other for years, and you can read many of them online.

Apparently Safran Foer though this correspondence was evidence that he and Portman were in love, and he told his wife and they split up.

The only problem is that Portman was and is married to ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millipied, and was not in love with Safran Foer and was actually just enjoying what she considered to be stimulating intellectual correspondence.

This anecdote neither makes me like nor dislike Portman (who seems kind of insufferable on a personal level but otherwise inoffensive as a celebrity). It does make me think Jonathan Safran Foer is (1) obsessed with her, and (2) extremely stupid.

This remains one of my favorite celebrity gossip items though, even these years later.

https://www.vox.com/2016/7/14/12187884/jonathan-safran-foer-natalie-portman-emails[/quote]
He’s completely insufferable. He left the incredibly beautiful and talented Nicole Krauss due to his infatuation with Portman. [/quote]

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